The dVerse Poets Pub prompt calls for a Cascade form poem with repeated lines. Berg’s “The Rush of a Wordfall” explores the impact of words on interpretation and the neuroscience behind art.
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Oct. 31 Prompts: Show Off Your Costumes
HAPPY HaLLoWEEN!! It’s here. IT’S HERE! All our fun has built to this one last poem, one last flash, one last Halloween photo shoot and then Halloween will turn into November. OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Let’s end with the prompt I wrote as a warm up, “You Don’t Frighten Me.” If you tried it theContinue reading “Oct. 31 Prompts: Show Off Your Costumes”
Oct. 30 Prompts: Beware the Cat
Here we are at the penultimate prompt post. How is everyone feeling? Sad it’s ending; relieved it’s over, excited by all the creativity and wanting more? I’m feeling all of those things. I’m glad I took on hosting all three challenges. I love them all. Next year, I’ll (hopefully) be more prepared. I appreciate everyContinue reading “Oct. 30 Prompts: Beware the Cat”
Oct. 29 Prompts: Halloween Party
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Fear of the Future: Imagine you are at a Halloween party in the future. What are you afraid of before you go? Imagine it’s the best Halloween party you could ever go to and nothing goes wrong, everything is the best Halloween party fun you can imagine. Write a poem describingContinue reading “Oct. 29 Prompts: Halloween Party”
Oct. 28 Prompts: What Makes a Villain
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Fear of the Bad Guys: Everyone believes they are the hero of their own story, so how do people who do such evil things still believe they are the good guys? For this poem, try to get into the heads of those you see as pure evil. How do they justifyContinue reading “Oct. 28 Prompts: What Makes a Villain”
Oct. 27 Prompts: Deep in the Forest
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Forest for the Trees: It’s easy to get caught up in details and lose the big picture, or be so focused on the big picture that the details get lost. Think about the opening of a film: the camera flying over a big city, then zooming into a location then toContinue reading “Oct. 27 Prompts: Deep in the Forest”
Oct. 26 Prompts: Haunted
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Fear of Not Being Good Enough: Is one of your poems from earlier this month haunting you? Choose one of your poems from the beginning of the month and revise it. Choose the best line and start a new poem with it, or start with the last line and write fromContinue reading “Oct. 26 Prompts: Haunted”
Oct. 25 Prompts: Superstitions
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Fear of the World: Describe what you see out the window. Now, go outside and describe what you see looking in through that window. Write a poem about the similarities and differences. What did you notice first? What most surprised you? The Mirror Sestet might work well with this prompt. WritoberContinue reading “Oct. 25 Prompts: Superstitions”
Oct. 24 Prompts: Pulsing Beneath the Surface
OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears Fear of Danger: Think of a warning you received from your parents as a child. Start your poem with “My mother says/said” or “My father says/said” and in the poem try to capture their fears behind the warnings. For this poem you may want to try a Cascade. Here’s a cascadeContinue reading “Oct. 24 Prompts: Pulsing Beneath the Surface”
Oct. 23 Prompts: Music of the Night
I am so glad you are still on these challenges with me. This last week, I started writing full flashes, and cutting more surprising cuts for my photographs. And I finished my pocket quilt in its first rendition. So much creative energy heading toward Halloween. OctPoWriMo 2023:Facing Our Fears A few weeks ago I readContinue reading “Oct. 23 Prompts: Music of the Night”
Experience Writing 